Friday's Letter

Dear Mr Veen:  last night while looking at you lying on the couch I said: "You look like death warmed over"; well this may have been a slight exaggeration and I'm sorry for that.  Also, I'm sorry you have such a bad cold.  Dear New Shoes:  why couldn't you have been honest from the beginning and told me you were going to KILL my feet after an hour of wearing you?  Dear Henry:  ever since Mr. Veen was out of town overnight you've taken to sleeping on the bed.  At what point did I become such a sucker for you?  You are definitely our new baby!  Dear Trader Joes:  thank you for supplying all my fall essentials:  pumpkins, apple cider, pumpkin bread and YES pumpkin beer = delish!  Dear Mumford & Sons:  how I do love thee!  The following is the first song I ever heard of yours and I was hooked.  Bonus points for dropping the f-bomb in such an artistic sensitive way.   This song proves that sometimes there's no substitute for a well placed swear word.  And last to Mr. Veen:  this is the first weekend for awhile that we're all going to be home together - yippee!  Can't wait to spend some time with you and my favorite peeps.

HAPPY WEEKEND!!

An Early Christmas Present!

Today I bought myself an awesome gift.  This gift is so good it actually will fulfill one of my bucket list items.  I was so excited after purchasing this gift that I did some crazy dancing the likes of which sincerly annoyed my pre-teen son. 

I bought tickets to see Mumford and Sons.

If you haven't heard of Mumford and Sons by now then I feel very sorry for you.  Their debut album 'Sigh no More' has been played, re-played, and memorized word for word  in my house.  Aside from their obvious musical talent the thing I love most about this band is the soul searching, haunting, and downright inspired quality of their musics lyrics.

For me listening to them is church



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